AMEC : appoints Jeff Reilly as Group President of Strategy and Business Development

08 May 2014

London, United Kingdom (8 May 2014) - AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has appointed Jeff Reilly as Group President of Strategy and Business Development.

He will be a member of the AMEC Group Management Team, reporting to Chief Executive Samir Brikho, and will be based in Houston, Texas, United States.

Samir Brikho said: "Jeff's appointment to this newly created role will further strengthen AMEC's relationships with its customers and ability to win new business. He brings extensive global experience in the upstream, midstream, downstream and power markets and has supported the achievement of both organic and acquisition-led growth."

Jeff Reilly commented: "I'm delighted to be joining AMEC at this exciting time in its development.  It's a highly respected business with the leadership, skilled people and ambition to grow further around the globe and deliver the high level service new and existing customers deserve."    

Mr. Reilly joins AMEC from Phillips 66, where he led both the Projects organisation and was Chief Procurement Officer.

He started his career with Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. as a Chemical Process Design Engineer and developed there and at ABB Lummus Global Inc advancing to company Vice President at both of these engineering and construction organisations. He joined ConocoPhillips in 2005, initially as Major Contracts Manager, then led upstream and downstream major project portfolios globally and was Chief Procurement Officer in 2012 when Phillips 66 was spun-off from ConocoPhillips.

Mr Reilly has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin; an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Houston; and is an Executive Advisory Committee Member for the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association Board of Directors.

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A photograph of Mr Reilly is available at http://www.amec.com/media/image_library.htm or on request.

AMEC (LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of consultancy, engineering and project management services to its customers in the world's oil and gas, mining, clean energy, environment and infrastructure markets. With annual revenues of some £4 billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets and employs around 27,000 people in more than 40 countries worldwide. See amec.com.